<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Blogging is not dead, but not as popular as it used to be. <br><br></div>Two factors are the cause, in my opinion:<br><br></div>- Google changing their algorithms, giving more weight to sites that they deem 'authoritative'. This started in 2011 and 2012. Many sites got wiped from search results because of that.<br><br></div>- People using Facebook pages, or just posts and then tweeting them. Many businesses and independent content creators are doing that, rather than maintaining a blog site, with all the effort that entails. Some just do the same on Youtube via a channel. This is very popular with the younger generation. They 'watch' instead of 'read'.<br><br></div>As Paul said, those who blog just use the web interface for their blog software, or CMS. Wordpress, Drupal, ...etc all have web based interfaces for creating content. <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 5:58 PM, Jeff Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com" target="_blank">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Thanks for this. I looked and now I'm really worried! Seems none of these clients listed under Linux are being maintained anymore. In fact, some are nearly ten years dead now.</p>
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<p>Gnome-blog seems to have some potential as it is at least listed in the Ubuntu software centre.. I'll give that one a try.</p>
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<p>But I can't help but wonder if I'm asking the wrong question here... So how about this one: is blogging itself dead? And by blogging, I mean uploading snippets of information (e.g. "Coming Events", or "here's what happened at event XYZ") to a private
website. Am I taking the old-fashioned approach to these websites that I maintain? I know WordPress is a security nightmare but it still seems very popular from what I see. (I know that also sounds suspiciously like Facebook...)</p>
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<p>What alternatives are there to blogging in general? Does anyone still run a blog-ish website?</p>
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> Anybody out there know of a good client for uploading to a Wordpress blog?<br>
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Have you checked out <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Weblog_Client#Linux" id="m_-1375261607302468550LPlnk333183" target="_blank">
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There's a list of 5 clients for Linux there, including an app<br>
developed by Wordpress. There's also a vim script available, but I<br>
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